Comments on: Twitter turns over Occupy tweets to court: Why this mattershttps://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/
Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos.Tue, 20 Mar 2018 02:02:34 +0000hourly1By: Julliago Santoshttps://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/#comment-465864
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:40:49 +0000https://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=376504#comment-465864I know.
]]>By: mrhacker95https://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/#comment-465294
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:16:38 +0000https://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=376504#comment-465294Records do not get deleted. Same with Facebook, AT&T, Verizon, MySpace, Sprint, T-mobile, etc Everyone keeps records of what you do and what you say.
]]>By: George Kafantarishttps://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/#comment-463564
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:55:22 +0000https://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=376504#comment-463564Rebels without a unified cause are still proof that all is not well with the status quo.
“Let them eat cake.”
That won’t do for Wall Street, anymore than it did for Marie Antoinette.
Deep inequalities exist out there and we should try to see them — despite the myopic tendency of the Street.
]]>By: Julliago Santoshttps://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/#comment-463512
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:07:19 +0000https://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=376504#comment-463512If they were “deleted” how/why does twitter still have a record of them?
]]>By: Ivan Ayliffehttps://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/#comment-463372
Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:25:16 +0000https://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=376504#comment-463372Unlike.
]]>By: Andrew Coutshttps://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/#comment-463285
Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:33:26 +0000https://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=376504#comment-463285Were this case simply about whether Harris broke the law and tweeted things that incriminated him, Twitter would not be involved. The broader implications of this case have absolutely zero to do with Harris’s actual guilt. It has to do with the government’s ability to monitor everything we do online — including (and I’m not just fear-mongering here) your emails, chats, Facebook posts, files stored on Dropbox (or any other cloud storage service), and any other online communication that has been stored on a third-party server for a minimum of six months.

Is Twitter looking after its own interests? Absolutely. But it is also fighting for something that is good for its users’ Constitutional rights to speak freely and not be searched by police without probable cause. Upholding the subpoena means that Twitter could be inundated by law enforcement around the country requesting private or deleted user data — a costly process for Twitter that has absolutely zero benefits for its business.

This is one of those rare instances where a win for the company is also a win for its users. And based on today’s proceedings, situations like this could become even more rare.

]]>By: Max Gelberhttps://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/twitter-turns-over-tweets-to-court/#comment-463269
Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:29:04 +0000https://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=376504#comment-463269The hazy nature of the third party doctrine (which I agree should be rewritten or removed completely) aside, I’m torn in situations like this. If it is true that he willfully posted (or even bragging) on twitter about breaking the law, disobeying police instruction and so on, well…I don’t think he has the right to hide behind some sudden privacy he feels he has over a formerly public tweet.

Once you make something public, it’s public. Now, if he accidently made it a public tweet and then immediately removed it, that’s a different situation. But if he knowingly posted it for all to see and then suddenly realized that was a dumb move a few hours later, well, you made your bed dude.

In the end though, I’m not entirely sure why people would be shocked by Twitter doing this. They’ve been making money off of you from day one, and will do what they have to to continue being a money making operation. Even if that means selling you out.